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Title

Author

The Art Forger

Barbara A. Shapiro

The Lost Films of 20th Century Spatchcock

Derek J Ripley

Shrader Marks: Keelhouse

Rob Smith

A Pigeon and A Boy

Meir Shalev

McGowan's Call

Rob Smith

On Beauty

Zadie Smith

These Granite Islands

Sarah Stonich

A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving

The World according to Garp

John Irving

To The End of The Land

David Grossman

The Little Country

Charles De Lint

The Visitor

Sheri S. Tepper

The Fresco

Sheri S. Tepper

Illegal Alien

Robert J. Sawyer

Flashforward

Robert J. Sawyer

Calculating God

Robert J. Sawyer

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Motherless Brooklyn

Jonathan Lethem

The Emigrants

W. G. Sebald

Austerlitz

W. G. Sebald

The Rings of Saturn

W. G. Sebald

Vertigo

W. G. Sebald

After Nature

W. G. Sebald

Emma Tupper's Diary

Peter Dickinson

The Dancing Bear

Peter Dickinson

The Iron Lion

Peter Dickinson

Independence Day

Richard Ford

The Truth (with jokes)

Al Franken

American Pastoral

Philip Roth

I Married a Communist

Philip Roth

The Plot Against America

Philip Roth

Portnoy's Complaint

Philip Roth

When She Was Good

Philip Roth

Our Gang (Starring Tricky and His Friends)

Philip Roth

The Breast

Philip Roth

The Great American Novel

Philip Roth

My Life As A Man

Philip Roth

The Professor of Desire

Philip Roth

The Ghost Writer

Philip Roth

A Philip Roth Reader

Philip Roth

Zuckerman Unbound

Philip Roth

The Anatomy Lesson

Philip Roth

Zuckerman Bound

Philip Roth

The Counterlife

Philip Roth

The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography

Philip Roth

Deception

Philip Roth

Patrimony; A True Story

Philip Roth

Operation Shylock: A Confession

Philip Roth

Sabbath's Theater

Philip Roth

The Prague Orgy

Philip Roth

The Dying Animal

Philip Roth

The Human Stain

Philip Roth

La Bête Humaine

Emile Zola

Yonder Stands Your Orphan

Barry Hannah

Ray

Barry Hannah

Airships

Barry Hannah

The General's Daughter

Nelson Demille

Word of Honor

Nelson Demille

The Trip to Bountiful

Horton Foote

Headlong

Michael Frayn

The Tin Men

Michael Frayn

Spies

Michael Frayn

Copenhagen

Michael Frayn

Noises Off

Michael Frayn

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Letters from the Earth

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

White Palace

Glenn Savan

Independent People

Halldor Laxness

Iceland's Bell

Halldor Laxness

Under the Glacier

Halldor Laxness

Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot

Al Franken

The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa

Demian

Hermann Hesse

Journey to the East

Hermann Hesse

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs

The Economy of Cities

Jane Jacobs

Cities and the Wealth of Nations

Jane Jacobs

A Question of Separatism

Jane Jacobs

Systems of Survival

Jane Jacobs

The Nature of Economies

Jane Jacobs

Dark Age Ahead

Jane Jacobs

A Landing on the Sun

Michael Frayn

Disturbance of the Inner Ear

Joyce Hackett

Flights of Love: Stories

Bernhard Schlink

Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology

Elisabeth Le Guin

The Guide

R. K. Narayan

The Vendor of Sweets

R. K. Narayan

Dillinger in Hollywood: New and Selected Stories

John Sayles

Union Dues

John Sayles

Los Gusanos

John Sayles

Silver City and Other Screenplays

John Sayles

An Unkindness of Ravens

Ruth Rendell

Neck Deep

Ken Barnett

Everyman

Philip Roth

Field of Darkness

Cornelia Read

The Young Man from Atlanta

Horton Foote

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler

The High Window

Raymond Chandler

The Lady in the Lake

Raymond Chandler

The Long Goodbye

Raymond Chandler

Playback

Raymond Chandler

Poodle Springs (with Robert B. Parker)

Raymond Chandler

Collected Short Stories

Raymond Chandler

Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs

Chuck Klosterman

Killing Yourself To Live

Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman IV

Chuck Klosterman

The Beak of the Finch

Jonathan Weiner

Three to Get Deadly

Janet Evanovich

Four to Score

Janet Evanovich

My Old True Love

Sheila Kay Adams

Shell Seekers

Rosamunde Pilcher

Winter Solstice

Rosamunde Pilcher

The Thin Place

Kathryn Davis

Quest for Lost Heroes

David Gemmell

Drenai Tales

David Gemmell

Strong Opinions

Vladimir Nabokov

Wildlife

Richard Ford

The Birth of Venus

Sarah Dunant

Six Strokes Under

Roberta Isleib

Putt to Death

Roberta Isleib

Fairway to Heaven

Roberta Isleib

Final Fore

Roberta Isleib

Deadly Advice

Roberta Isleib

Died to Match

Deborah Donnelly

Bride and Doom

Deborah Donnelly

Loving Sabotage

Amélie Nothomb

The Stranger Next Door

Amélie Nothomb

The Book of Proper Names

Amélie Nothomb

Antichrista

Amélie Nothomb

The Life of Hunger

Amélie Nothomb

Death in a Strange Country

Donna Leon

Acqua Alta

Donna Leon

Mother Tongue

Bill Bryson

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

In the Company of the Courtesan

Sarah Dunant

Mapping the Edge

Sarah Dunant

Transgressions

Sarah Dunant

Snowstorms in a Hot Climate

Sarah Dunant

Wideacre

Philippa Gregory

The Favored Child

Philippa Gregory

Meridon

Philippa Gregory

Earthly Joys

Philippa Gregory

Virgin Earth

Philippa Gregory

The Other Boleyn Girl

Philippa Gregory

The Queen's Fool

Philippa Gregory

The Virgin's Lover

Philippa Gregory

The Constant Princess

Philippa Gregory

The Boleyn Inheritance

Philippa Gregory

The Wise Woman

Philippa Gregory

Fallen Skies

Philippa Gregory

The Little House

Philippa Gregory

Perfectly Correct

Philippa Gregory

The Book of Ruth

Jane Hamilton

A Map of the World

Jane Hamilton

The Short History of a Prince

Jane Hamilton

When Madeline Was Young

Jane Hamilton

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Mary Roach

Artemisia: A Novel

Alexandra Lapierre

Labyrinth

Kate Mosse

Love and Death in Psychotherapy

Robert J. Langs

Beating the Love Affair Rap and Other Tales from the Village Voice

Phyllis Raphael

Off the King's Road: Lost and Found in London

Phyllis Raphael

Le Rêve (The Dream)

Emile Zola

Eragon

Christopher Paolini

Eldest

Christopher Paolini

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Markus Zusak

The Underdog

Markus Zusak

The Death Collectors

Jack Kerley

The Hundredth Man

Jack Kerley

Castle in the Air

Diana Wynne Jones

Dark Lord of Derkholm

Diana Wynne Jones

Bad Debts

Peter Temple

To Love Anew

Bonnie Leon

My Sister's A Sea Slug

Gretel Killeen

The Dead Fathers Club

Matt Haig

Shadow Forest ("Samuel Blink and the Forbidden Forest" in the US)

Matt Haig

The Wig My Father Wore

Anne Enright

What Are You Like?

Anne Enright

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

Anne Enright

The Portable Virgin

Anne Enright

Sword of the Rightful King

Jane Yolen

The Wizard's Map

Jane Yolen

Boots and the Seven Leaguers

Jane Yolen

The Whitethorn Wood and Other Magicks

Jane Yolen

The Wizard's Hall

Jane Yolen

The One-Armed Queen

Jane Yolen

Then Came Faith

Louise M. Gouge

Son of Perdition

Louise M. Gouge

The Thorn Birds

Colleen McCullough

The October Horse

Colleen McCullough

Antony and Cleopatra

Colleen McCullough

Mountain Miracle

T. L. Tedrow

Good Neighbors

T. L. Tedrow

Missouri Homestead

T. L. Tedrow

The Great Debate

T. L. Tedrow

Children of Promise

T. L. Tedrow

Home to the Prairie

T. L. Tedrow

The World's Fair

T. L. Tedrow

Land of Promise

T. L. Tedrow

There is a Bird on Your Head

Mo Willems

Knuffle Bunny Too

Mo Willems

Rufus And The Biggest Diamond In The World

Michael Elsmere

Mama Tried to Raise a Lady

RD Larson

Sorrow's Field

RD Larson

Evil Angel

RD Larson

Marian Riles, Soft-boiled Detective

RD Larson

Doors: Five Stories of Strong Women

RD Larson

Saving Reverend Clayton

RD Larson

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

ZZ Packer

The Other Queen

Philippa Gregory

The Gilded Chamber

Rebecca Kohn

Seven Days to the Sea

Rebecca Kohn

Crucifix Lane

Kate Mosse

Sepulchre

Kate Mosse

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Mary Roach

Homecoming

Bernhard Schlink

Cane River

Lalita Tademy

Red River

Lalita Tademy

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

Collected Plays

Zora Neale Hurston

Color Struck

Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road

Zora Neale Hurston

Moses, Man of the Mountain

Zora Neale Hurston

The Gilded Six-Bits

Zora Neale Hurston

Tell My Horse

Zora Neale Hurston

Code Name: Nanny

Christina Skye

Code Name: Princess

Christina Skye

Code Name: Baby

Christina Skye

Code Name: Bikini

Christina Skye

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

Henry VIII

William Shakespeare

The Tempest

William Shakespeare

Love's Labor Lost

William Shakespeare

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Among the Ginzburgs

Ellen Pall

A Passage to India

E. M. Forster

Ada

Vladimir Nabokov

Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway

The Luzhin Defense

Vladimir Nabokov

Invitation to a Beheading

Vladimir Nabokov

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Vladimir Nabokov

About a Boy

Nick Hornby

A Long Way Down

Nick Hornby

Songbook

Nick Hornby

Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age

Stanislaw Lem

Star Diaries

Stanislaw Lem

Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

Stanislaw Lem

More Tales of Pirx the Pilot

Stanislaw Lem

The Corrections: A Novel

Jonathan Franzen

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Carson McCullers

The Member of the Wedding

Carson McCullers

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Carson McCullers

The Square Root of Wonderful

Carson McCullers

Clock Without Hands

Carson McCullers

How to be Alone: Essays

Jonathan Franzen

Death in the Afternoon

Ernest Hemingway

The Good Terrorist

Doris Lessing

The Outer Dark

Cormac McCarthy

Lord Foul's Bane

Stephen R. Donaldson

The Illearth War

Stephen R. Donaldson

The Power that Preserves

Stephen R. Donaldson

The Wounded Land

Stephen R. Donaldson

The One Tree

Stephen R. Donaldson

White Gold Wielder

Stephen R. Donaldson

The Washington Square Ensemble

Madison Smartt Bell

Waiting for the End of the World

Madison Smartt Bell

The Year of Silence

Madison Smartt Bell

All Souls' Rising

Madison Smartt Bell

The Twenty-Seventh City

Jonathan Franzen

Strong Motion

Jonathan Franzen

Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad

The Secret Sharer

Joseph Conrad

Kitchen

Banana Yoshimoto

Transparent Things

Vladimir Nabokov

The Golden Notebook

Doris Lessing

Nostromo

Joseph Conrad

Almayer's Folly

Joseph Conrad

A Late Divorce

A. B. Yehoshua

The Bone Collector

Jeffery Deaver

The Empty Chair

Jeffery Deaver

The Stone Monkey

Jeffery Deaver

Far From the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy

The Woodlanders

Thomas Hardy

Lost in the Garden

Philip Beard

Dear Zoe

Philip Beard

The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith

N.P. : A Novel

Banana Yoshimoto

Goodbye Tsugumi

Banana Yoshimoto

Asleep

Banana Yoshimoto

A Pair of Blue Eyes

Thomas Hardy

Lovers and Strangers

Diane Chamberlain

A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

Danilo Kis

Cat of Many Tails

Ellery Queen

The Saddlemaker's Wife

Earlene Fowler

Fool's Puzzle

Earlene Fowler

Kansas Troubles

Earlene Fowler

Goose in the Pond

Earlene Fowler

Dove in the Window

Earlene Fowler

Mariner's Compass

Earlene Fowler

Seven Sisters

Earlene Fowler

Arkansas Traveler

Earlene Fowler

Steps to the Altar

Earlene Fowler

Sunshine and Shadow

Earlene Fowler

Benni Harper's Quilt Album (with Margrit Hall)

Earlene Fowler

War With The Newts

Karel Capek

Secret Lives

Diane Chamberlain

Private Relations

Diane Chamberlain

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

Foucault's Pendulum

Umberto Eco

The Island of the Day Before

Umberto Eco

Baudolino

Umberto Eco

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Umberto Eco

Look At The Harlequins!

Vladimir Nabokov

Mary

Vladimir Nabokov

Bend Sinister

Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita: A Screenplay

Vladimir Nabokov

Speak, Memory

Vladimir Nabokov

Glory

Vladimir Nabokov

Laughter In The Dark

Vladimir Nabokov

The Eye

Vladimir Nabokov

Despair

Vladimir Nabokov

Wessex Tales

Thomas Hardy

Desperate Remedies

Thomas Hardy

Delectable Mountains

Earlene Fowler

Gas Light

Patrick Hamilton

Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

Helene Hanff

84, Charing Cross Road

Helene Hanff

Q's Legacy

Helene Hanff

Kiss River

Diane Chamberlain

Her Mother's Shadow

Diane Chamberlain

Breaking the Silence

Diane Chamberlain

Cypress Point

Diane Chamberlain

The Bay at Midnight

Diane Chamberlain

The West Pier

Patrick Hamilton

The Slaves of Solitude

Patrick Hamilton

Hangover Square

Patrick Hamilton

How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays

Umberto Eco

Intensive Care

Janet Frame

Scented Gardens for the Blind

Janet Frame

To the Is-Land

Janet Frame

Straight Cut

Madison Smartt Bell

Save Me, Joe Louis

Madison Smartt Bell

Zero db (short stories)

Madison Smartt Bell

Anything Goes

Madison Smartt Bell

Flamingo Fatale

Jimmie Ruth Evans

Murder Over Easy

Jimmie Ruth Evans

Best Served Cold

Jimmie Ruth Evans

Redemption

Debra Lee

Isle of Glass

Judith Tarr

Hall of the Mountain King

Judith Tarr

Ars Magica

Judith Tarr

Household Gods (with Harry Turtledove)

Judith Tarr

Golden Horn

Judith Tarr

The Lady of Han-Gilen

Judith Tarr

A Fall of Princes

Judith Tarr

Arrows of the Sun

Judith Tarr

Spear of Heaven

Judith Tarr

Tides of Darkness

Judith Tarr

The Dagger and the Cross

Judith Tarr

White Mare's Daughter

Judith Tarr

Lady of Horses

Judith Tarr

Daughter of Lir

Judith Tarr

Devil's Bargain

Judith Tarr

House of War

Judith Tarr

Rite of Conquest

Judith Tarr

A Wind in Cairo

Judith Tarr

Lord of the Two Lands

Judith Tarr

His Majesty's Elephant

Judith Tarr

Throne of Isis

Judith Tarr

The Eagle's Daughter

Judith Tarr

Pillar of Fire

Judith Tarr

King and Goddess

Judith Tarr

Queen of Swords

Judith Tarr

Kingdom of the Grail

Judith Tarr

Pride of Kings

Judith Tarr

Queen of the Amazons

Judith Tarr

All Over Creation

Ruth Ozeki

Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Susan Vreeland

The Man Who Was Thursday

G. K. Chesterton

The Complete Father Brown (Father Brown Mystery)

G. K. Chesterton

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

Fay Weldon

Big Women

Fay Weldon

Last Days of Summer

Steve Kluger

Crow Lake

Mary Lawson

The Other Side of the Bridge

Mary Lawson

Illuminations

Arthur Rimbaud

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

W.B. Yeats

The Culture of Make Believe

Derrick Jensen

Listening To The Land

Derrick Jensen

Endgame: Volume 2: Resistance

Derrick Jensen

Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, Revolution

Derrick Jensen

The Flight of the Maidens

Jane Gardam

The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson

Fellow-Townsmen

Thomas Hardy

Going Loco

Lynne Truss

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

Lynne Truss

Talk to the Hand

Lynne Truss

Luncheon of the Boating Party

Susan Vreeland

De Los Amores Negados

Angela Becerra

The Ribbon Murders

Sharon Ervin

Weekend Wife

Sharon Ervin

Counterfeit Cowboy

Sharon Ervin

Bodacious

Sharon Ervin

A Mouthful of Air

Amy Koppelman

Fresh Air

Charlotte Vale Allen

Parting Gifts

Charlotte Vale Allen

Claudia's Shadow

Charlotte Vale Allen

Grace Notes

Charlotte Vale Allen

Meet me in Time

Charlotte Vale Allen

The Trouble with Magic

Madelyn Alt

Homecoming

Cynthia Voigt

On Fortune's Wheel

Cynthia Voigt

Jackaroo

Cynthia Voigt

The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare

The Winter's Tale

William Shakespeare

Dicey's Song

Cynthia Voigt

The Wings of a Falcon

Cynthia Voigt

Come a Stranger

Cynthia Voigt

Sons from Afar

Cynthia Voigt

Seventeen Against the Dealer

Cynthia Voigt

The Sword in the Stone

T. H. White

The Ill-Made Knight

T. H. White

The Witch in the Wood (also titled "The Queen of Air and Darkness")

T. H. White

The Candle in the Wind

T. H. White

England Have My Bones

T. H. White

The Goshawk

T. H. White

Mistress Masham's Repose

T. H. White

Darkness At Pemberley

T. H. White

The Age of Scandal

T. H. White

Farewell Victoria

T. H. White

The Trench

Steve Alten

Resurrection

Steve Alten

The Shell Game

Steve Alten

No Such Thing As A Secret

Shelly Fredman

No Such Thing As A Good Blind Date

Shelly Fredman

The Secret Seven

Enid Blyton

Secret Seven Adventure

Enid Blyton

Third Year at Malory Towers

Enid Blyton

Orthodoxy

G. K. Chesterton

The Club of Queer Trades

G. K. Chesterton

The Everlasting Man

G. K. Chesterton

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

G. K. Chesterton

Tennyson's Gift

Lynne Truss

With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed

Lynne Truss

A Certain Age

Lynne Truss

A Fortunate Life

A. B. Facey

Old Filth

Jane Gardam

Queen of the Tambourine

Jane Gardam

Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin

Significant Others

Armistead Maupin

Michael Tolliver Lives

Armistead Maupin

Maybe the Moon

Armistead Maupin

Tumbling Blocks

Earlene Fowler

Ways of Dying

Zakes Mda

The Grass is Singing

Doris Lessing

The Cleft

Doris Lessing

Briefing for a Descent into Hell

Doris Lessing

The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog

Doris Lessing

The Sweetest Dream

Doris Lessing

Five Short Novels

Doris Lessing

Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

Doris Lessing

I Smile Back

Amy Koppelman

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

Mo Willems

Knuffle Bunny

Mo Willems

The Pigeon Wants a Puppy

Mo Willems

Then We Came to the End

Joshua Ferris

The Hottest State

Ethan Hawke

Ash Wednesday

Ethan Hawke

Gilmore's Dairy

Lloyd Jones

Splinter

Lloyd Jones

Choo Woo

Lloyd Jones

The Book of Fame

Lloyd Jones

Here At the End of the World We Learn to Dance

Lloyd Jones

Paint Your Wife

Lloyd Jones

Eliot

Lloyd Jones

Mister Pip

Lloyd Jones

Biografi: A Traveller's Tale

Lloyd Jones

The Fifth Child

Doris Lessing

Coldwater

Mardi McConnochie

Borrowed Finery: A Memoir

Paula Fox

Sleep Toward Heaven

Amanda Eyre Ward

How to Be Lost

Amanda Eyre Ward

Forgive Me

Amanda Eyre Ward

Lickety Split

Zonya Foco

Turner

David Dabydeen

Katherine's Wish

Linda Lappin

Warriors: Code of the Clan

Erin Hunter

Warriors: Omen of the Stars

Erin Hunter

Warriors: Into the Wild

Erin Hunter

Moonrise

Erin Hunter

Sunset

Erin Hunter

Dawn

Erin Hunter

Escape From the Forest

Erin Hunter

Warriors: Cats of the Clans

Erin Hunter

The Catherine Wheel

Patricia Wentworth

The Case Is Closed

Patricia Wentworth

WolfPointe

Rick Buda

When the Morning Comes

Cindy Woodsmall

When the Soul Mends

Cindy Woodsmall

Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting